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Ethics in Volkswagen (Smith, 2011)

   

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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY .................................................................................................................................1CONCLUSION .........................................................................................................................4REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
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INTRODUCTIONEthics can be defined as the moral principles which are related to the behavior of a personwhen he/she works on an allotted task. This assignment will discuss about emissions scandal inVolkswagen where they failed to follow ethics (Smith, 2011). It will also discuss about variousdilemmas and its impact on stakeholders. Positive or negative impact of their decisions willbecome part of this file. Original views will also get covered under this project. MAIN BODYThe importance of ethics is enhancing in this era because it is directly connected to thename of an organization. Companies who follow regulations which are present in businessenvironment earn trust of various stakeholder specially customers which help them in increasingtheir goodwill and valuation. Volkswagen is one of a leading organization in automotiveindustry, they are running their business across the globe and make different type of vehicles likecars, buses etc. Almost 626,715 employees are working in this enterprise and their profit isaround 2 billion pound (Slingerland, 2011). They have many subsidiaries, some of them areknown for making only luxury cars. Cited enterprise is also working on vehicles run by eitherhybrid fuel or electricity which can be considered as the future of this sector.Engineers of Volkswagen made a software which assisted them in showing wrongamount of carbon emission at the time of testing. In books, they were doing less pollution but inreal case they were breaking the rules and ethics. In investigation, it was found that theirengineers were in lot of pressure because they had to improve performance of company's car butat the same time they have to follow the regulations which were made by government. Thisdilemma forced them to find a middle path which was unethical. When a person has options in his/her life they face a confusing situation where they failto choose right path. Volkswagen also faced same situation, Bosch sold them a software whichassisted them in cheating the test. If they would not have that device, they could never do this.This problem initiated when they got an illegal choice whose chances of catching was next toimpossible (Shu and et.al, 2012). This was not the first time cited organization has donesomething like that, in 1970 they did same thing but at that time they were punished with only$120,000 fine. This incident can be considered as the main reason of confidence amongmanagement. They thought it is rational and then entered in a dilemma. Company was earning1
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